On 03/01/12 20:04, Walter Bender wrote:
Gary, Christian, et al.,
We are hopefully going to land some variant of the "Write to Journal
Anytime" patch in Sugar 0.96 [1]. I'd like to discuss the details before
jumping back into the code. The current plan of record is essentially to
make a modal display of the Journal expanded entry (detail view) available
on demand from a button on the activity toolbar (grabbing space freed up by
the elimination of the Keep button). This is essentially what I mocked up
about two years ago.
While we may have had Design Team consensus on this plan in January 2011, I
remain skeptical. The problems I see with this approach are: (1) the user
cannot see their current work while the model window is displayed -- since
presumably the goal is to write about what you are working on, this seems
problematic; (2) most of the fields in the detail view are irrelevant to
the task of taking notes; (3) some of the fields, e.g., title, already have
mechanisms for change; (4) many of the fields are not human-editable, e.g.,
preview image, collabarators....
For these reasons and my general dislike of modal interfaces, I suggest a
simple alternative: a text entry in the toolbar that lets you add notes to
the description field directly from the toolbar. Simon (?) mocked this up a
few years back and I think it meets the needs of the run-time access to
note taking.
I had the following proposal: in the activity toolbar you can evoke the
description field [1]. The toolbar could expand on key press to make it
available more quick.
General Note: I think in any case if we go down that road it should be
part of the base activity toolbar and available in every activity.
Regards,
Simon
[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Description.png
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